Mary Fisher wrote:

I - and, I suggest - MOST people who use the internet use MS. That means
it's successful. Why is it successful? Because it works.

coughs

Hate to wade into the middle of an OE argument, but I really don't
believe that the reason you give is accurate. People use IE/OE because
that's what's on their machine when they first get it.

The products (IE & OE) do 'work', in that they largely allow users to do
most of what they want to do most of the time, but that doesn't mean
they are particularly good tools.

The free blade that you get when you buy a circular saw 'works', but in
most cases it's a very poor blade. Unless you spend some time learning
about blades, and the differences between them, and experimenting with
other blades, you'll never know how poor that first blade is. Cuts wood,
doesn't it?

My biggest objection to OE is on security - I really don't care if users
want to live with a limited set of functionality - that's their choice -
but the inherent poor security of the application has very widespread
consequences.



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Grunff